Written by Bahaa Nabil Sunday, December 3, 2023 10:00 AM
The anniversary of the artist’s death Salah CainToday, Sunday, December 3, he is considered one of the most important artists who left an imprint with his roles and has his name engraved on the list of great artists. He played many diverse roles in cinema and television drama, where he played the roles of “the good, the bad, the officer, the teacher, the politician, the businessman,” and others. He was able to enter the hearts of the audience with his unparalleled acting performance.
Since his childhood, the artist Mahmoud Kabil dreamed of entering the acting institute and practicing this profession for the love of art, but after he finished his studies in high school, his father rejected the idea of the acting institute and was insisting that he enter the Faculty of Law, which he was actually forced to do, and he studied there and at the same time joined the troupe. Theater at the university, but he left studying law and joined the Higher Institute of Acting after the death of his father. Among his classmates in the same batch were the artist Hassan Youssef and the artist Hassan Mustafa.
The sudden death of the artist Salah Kabil had an impact on his dramatic works in which he was participating at the time. Some of them had the script changed and modifications were made or replaced, and for others they sought the help of his cousin to complete a remaining scene of the work.
The first of these works was the fifth part of the series “Layali Al-Helmeya”, whose scenario was changed after his death, and they deleted the countries of “Allam Al-Samahi”, who was scheduled to play him, so that he could be a deceased character within its events.
The second of these works is the series “Wolves of the Mountain”, in which he died while filming the character “Alwan Al-Bakri”, after he had filmed 8 scenes from it, and the last scene in it was with the artist Wafa Makki. Abu Amira confirmed that one of the ironies of fate is that the character “Alwan Al-Bakri” was assigned The role was played by Salah Qabil, but he died during filming. After that, the role was assigned to the artist Abdullah Ghaith, but he died, and the role was not offered to anyone after the death of Abdullah Ghaith.
As for the work in which his cousin was used, it was the series “The Age of Knights”, where the son of the late Salah Kabil explained that his father had only two scenes remaining in the series, one of which was with his son and the second was the scene of his death after his failure in the elections, and here they sought the help of his cousin, the journalist writer Mohamed Kabil. As a substitute for him, as there was a similarity between them, the necessary makeup was modified, and the role was completed without being deleted.
